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The Topics API
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Some domain name have no associated topic #264

Open francoishumanoid opened 10 months ago

francoishumanoid commented 10 months ago

We tried to see which topics are associated with our websites, and see that one of our domain has no topics associated. We have topics associated with frandroid.com and madmoizelle.com but numerama.com is not returning any associated topic.

How can we associate topics with numerama.com ?

Thanks

patmmccann commented 10 months ago

this feels like a dupe of https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/issues/224#issuecomment-1679310822

leeronisrael commented 10 months ago

We do not expect there to be a negative impact to individual sites that are misclassified or lack a classification. A key benefit of Topics is surfacing interests that expand beyond a site’s own contextual information. A site’s own contextual information can continue to be accessible, independently of the Topics API (as it is today). While there is not a way for an individual site to request specific topics to be associated with their site, we do expect the classifier to improve over time.

The latest classifier is rolling out following the same ramp up as the updated taxonomy This updated classifier assigns numerama.com two topics: “Computers & electronics” and “News”. You can observe this directly by taking the following steps:

  1. Navigate to chrome://flags and enable “Privacy Sandbox Ads APIs”
  2. Enable taxonomy V2 via a command line flag --enable-features=BrowsingTopicsParameters:taxonomy_version/2 (docs)
  3. Navigate to chrome://topics-internals and select the “Classifier” tab
  4. Enter http://numerama.com/ in the field and select “Classify”
patmmccann commented 10 months ago

We do not expect there to be a negative impact to individual sites that are misclassified or lack a classification.

I disagree; sites that lack classifications may be excluded from high-value topics sharing networks as known free riders.

francoishumanoid commented 10 months ago

@leeronisrael thanks for the reply.

dmarti commented 10 months ago

@patmmccann In some cases, a domain could be correctly classified with a high-value topic at the time the domain is bought, but misclassified or unclassified by the version of the classifier in use at the time the site goes live and/or is looking for a topics sharing network to join.